For the purpose of this title certain words and terms are defined as follows: (Words used in the present tense include the future words in the singular number include the plural and the plural the singular; words not included herein but defined in the Uniform Building Code shall be construed as defined therein.)
"Accessory Building" see "Building Accessory"
"Accessory Dwelling Unit or ADU" An ADU is a secondary dwelling unit with complete independent living facilities for one or more persons and generally takes three forms:
1. Detached: The unit is separated from the primary residential structure.
2. Attached: The unit is attached to the primary residential structure
3. Repurposed Existing Space: Space within the primary residence or an existing accessory building (such as a garage or shop) is converted into an independent living unit.
Requirements for ADUs are listed in 17.40.040
"Agriculture" means the tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, horticulture and gardening, the keeping of animals and fowl for recreation and family food production, but not including any agricultural business or industry involving agricultural products in packaging, treatment, sales, intensive feeding, or storage, including but not limited to animal feed yards, fur farms, commercial milk production, food packaging or processing plants, commercial egg or poultry production, and similar uses as determined by the planning commission.
"Basement" means a story totally or partly underground. A basement shall be counted as a story for the purposes of height measurement if its height is one-half or more above grade.
"Block" means one side of one platted block fronting on a Manti City street. This block will normally have a length of approximately five hundred twenty-eight (528) feet centerline to centerline of streets adjacent to the block in question but at right angles to the street which they intersect which fronts the block being defined. For properties fronting on a street that does not have two intersecting streets at right angles, the block may be considered the distance from the single intersecting street such as a cul-de-sac, for a distance of up to five hundred twenty-eight (528) feet measured from the point of intersection with the street which exists at right angles to the street fronting the "block".
"Building" means any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls for the housing or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels.
"Building, Accessory" (Accessory building) means a detached subordinate building clearly incidental to and located upon the same lot occupied by the main building and includes both constructed buildings such as sheds or garages and portable structures such as detached carports and Intermodal or ISO containers.
Building, Height of. "Height of building" means the vertical distance from the average finished grade surface to the highest point of the building roof or coping.
"Building inspector" means an officer or designated authority charged with the administration of this code, or duly authorized representative. Building official, enforcement officer, zoning administrator shall be synonymous with building inspector for the purposes of this title.
"Building line" means a line parallel to the front, side, or rear lot line and established at the point where that lot line is closest to any part of the building or structure exclusive of the ordinary projections of skylight, sills, belt courses, cornices, chimneys, flues, and ornamental features which do not project onto a yard more than two and one-half feet, and open or lattice enclosured fire escape, fireproof outside stairway and balconies open upon fire towers which do not project into a yard more than five feet.
Building, Main. "Main building" means the principal building or one of the principal buildings upon a lot, or the building or one of the principal buildings housing a principal use on a lot.
"Conditional use" means a use of land for which a conditional use permit is required, pursuant to this title.
Dwelling, Multiple-Family. "Multiple-family dwelling" means a building arranged or designed to be occupied by three or more families.
Dwelling, Single-Family. "Single-family dwelling" means a building arranged or designed to be occupied by one family, the structure having only one dwelling unit.
Dwelling, Two-Family. "Two-family dwelling" means a single building arranged or designed to be occupied by two families, the structure having at least four feet of common wall in a living area and only two dwelling units. For the purposes of this definition, a carport, garage, porch, deck, breezeway, or other similar non-habitable structural member does not constitute a living area.
"Dwelling unit" means one or more rooms in a dwelling, apartment hotel, or apartment motel, designed for or occupied by one family for living or sleeping purposes and having one but not more than one kitchen or set of fixed cooking facilities, other than hot plates or portable cooking units.
"Family" means one or more persons related by blood, adoption, or marriage, according to the laws of the state of Utah, or a group of not more than four persons occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a boardinghouse, lodginghouse or hotel, as herein defined.
"Home occupation" means a business use conducted on the same lot as a dwelling, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the property for residential purposes and which does not change the residential character thereof. See Section 5.04.025 of the Manti City Zoning Ordinance for specific requirements for home occupations.
"Household pets" means animals or fowl ordinarily permitted in the house, and kept for company or pleasure such as dogs, cats, and canaries, but not including a sufficient number of dogs to constitute a kennel, as defined in this title.
"Junkyard" means the use of any portion of a lot, or tract of land for the storage, keeping of abandonment of junk, including scrap metal, or other scrap material, or for the dismantling, demolition, or abandonment of automobile or other vehicles, or machinery or parts thereof, provided that this definition shall be deemed not to include such uses which are clearly accessory and incidental to any agricultural use permitted in the zone.
"Kennel" means the keeping of more than three dogs, at least four months old.
"Lot" means a parcel of land occupied or to be occupied by a building or group of buildings, together with such yards, open spaces, lot width and lot area as are required by this title, having frontage upon a public street or upon a right-of-way approved by the board of adjustment.
"Lot area" means the total gross land area of a parcel of land, not including street right-of-ways dedicated to the public.
Lot, Corner. "Corner lot" means a lot abutting on two intersecting or intercepting streets, where the interior angle of intersection or interception does not exceed one hundred thirty-five (135) degrees. Corner lots shall have two front yards and two side yards.
Lot, Frontage. "Frontage lot" means that portion of a lot adjoining a public street measured along the front lot line between intersecting or intercepting streets, or between a street and a right-of-way, waterway, end of a dead-end street, or a political boundary. For lots having a front lot line on more than one street, frontage shall be measured on one street only.
"Lot depth" means the horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the main direction of the side lot lines.
Lot line, Front. "Front lot line" means, for an interior lot, the lot line adjoining the street; for a corner lot, the lot line adjoining both streets; for a lot with streets on opposite sides, the lot line adjoining either street as elected by the lot owner.
Lot line, Rear. "Rear lot line" means, ordinarily, that line of a lot which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line. In the case of a triangular or gore-shaped lot, a line ten (10) feet in length within the parcel, parallel to and at a maximum distance from the front lot line. In cases where these definitions are not applicable, the planning commission shall designate the rear lot line.
Lot line, Side. "Side lot line" means any lot boundary line not a front or rear lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from another lot or lots is an interior side lot line; a lot line separating a lot from a street is a front lot line.
"Lot width" means the shorter of horizontal distance between the side lot line, measured at the required front yard setback line or rear setback line.
For corner lots the main and accessory buildings shall have a thirty (30) foot setback from both lot lines adjoining the streets. The main building must also have at least a thirty (30) foot setback from one of the remaining two lot lines. The fourth setback must be a minimum of ten (10) feet from the lot line. Unattached accessory buildings may have a five-foot setback on the two lot lines that are not on the streets. There shall be a minimum separation of ten (10) feet between any accessory building and a primary structure same lot. There shall be a minimum separation of five feet between an accessory structure and any other accessory structure on the same or adjoining lot.
"Manufactured housing" means a structure designed and constructed for human habitation, its major component parts being either partially or entirely factory fabricated in single or multiple sections for erection on a site other than its place of fabrication.
"Mobile home" means a manufactured dwelling other than a modular or panelized structure having self-contained plumbing, heating, ventilating and electrical systems, and when installed on site measures at least eight body feet or more in width and thirty-two (32) feet body feet in length, which is with or without a permanent foundation, and for the purposes of this title, was constructed before June 15, 1976.
"Mobile home park" means a space designed and approved by the local jurisdiction for occupancy by mobilehomes, to be under a single ownership or management and meeting all requirements of the zoning ordinance and mobilehome park regulations.
"Mobile home subdivision" means a subdivision designed and intended for residential use where the lots are to be individually owned or leased, and occupied by the mobile homes exclusively.
"Modular home" means a manufactured dwelling structure designed for erection or installation in a site-built permanent, continuous wall foundation at least thirty-six (36) inches in depth, constructed in compliance with either Uniform Building Code as adopted by the local jurisdiction or federal mobile home construction and safety standards, intended to remain indefinitely at the place of erection, and for the purposes of this title, has a body of not less than twenty-four (24) feet in width and forty (40) feet in length.
"Nonconforming building or structure" means a building or structure or portion thereof, lawfully existing at the time the ordinance codified in this title became effective, which does not conform to all the height, area, and yard regulations herein prescribed in the zone in which it is located.
"Nonconforming use" means a use which lawfully occupied a building or land at the time the ordinance codified in this title became effective and which does not conform with the use regulations of the zone in which it is located.
"Story" means the space within a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the ceiling next above.
"Street" means a thoroughfare which has been dedicated or abandoned to the public and accepted by proper public authority, or a thoroughfare, not less than thirty (30) feet wide, which has been made public by right of use which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.
"Structure" means anything constructed or erected, which requires a location on the ground or attached to something having a location on the ground.
"Structural alterations" means any change in supporting members of a building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
"Subdivision cluster" means a subdivision of land in which the lots have area less than the minimum lot area of the district in which the subdivision is located, but which complies with the cluster subdivision provisions of this title and in which a significant part of the land is privately reserved or dedicated as permanent common open space to provide a low density character for the residential lots in the subdivision.
"Travel trailer or recreational coach" means a vehicular portable structure designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational/ vacation uses, which is not more than eight feet wide and is less than thirty (30) feet long.
"Trailer park" means any area or tract of land used or designed to accommodate two or more travel trailers or camping parties.
Use, Accessory. "Accessory use" means a subordinate use customarily incidental to and located upon the same lot occupied by a main use.
Use, Main. "Main use" means the principal function or use of the land and/or building or structure defined as an allowable use in this title.
"Yard" means a space on the lot, other than a court, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upwards, by buildings, except as otherwise provided herein.
Yard, Front. "Front yard" means a space extending across the full width of the lot, between the front building line and the front lot line. The depth of the front yard is the minimum distance between the front lot line and the front building line.
Yard, Rear. "Rear yard" means a space extending across the full width of the lot, between the rear building line and the rear lot line. The depth of the rear yard is the minimum distance between the rear lot line and the rear building line.
Yard, Side. "Side yard" means a space extending along the full depth of a lot, between the side building line and the side lot line. The width of the side yard shall be the minimum distance between the side lot line and the side building line.
For the purpose of this title certain words and terms are defined as follows: (Words used in the present tense include the future words in the singular number include the plural and the plural the singular; words not included herein but defined in the Uniform Building Code shall be construed as defined therein.)
"Accessory Building" see "Building Accessory"
"Accessory Dwelling Unit or ADU" An ADU is a secondary dwelling unit with complete independent living facilities for one or more persons and generally takes three forms:
1. Detached: The unit is separated from the primary residential structure.
2. Attached: The unit is attached to the primary residential structure
3. Repurposed Existing Space: Space within the primary residence or an existing accessory building (such as a garage or shop) is converted into an independent living unit.
Requirements for ADUs are listed in 17.40.040
"Agriculture" means the tilling of the soil, the raising of crops, horticulture and gardening, the keeping of animals and fowl for recreation and family food production, but not including any agricultural business or industry involving agricultural products in packaging, treatment, sales, intensive feeding, or storage, including but not limited to animal feed yards, fur farms, commercial milk production, food packaging or processing plants, commercial egg or poultry production, and similar uses as determined by the planning commission.
"Basement" means a story totally or partly underground. A basement shall be counted as a story for the purposes of height measurement if its height is one-half or more above grade.
"Block" means one side of one platted block fronting on a Manti City street. This block will normally have a length of approximately five hundred twenty-eight (528) feet centerline to centerline of streets adjacent to the block in question but at right angles to the street which they intersect which fronts the block being defined. For properties fronting on a street that does not have two intersecting streets at right angles, the block may be considered the distance from the single intersecting street such as a cul-de-sac, for a distance of up to five hundred twenty-eight (528) feet measured from the point of intersection with the street which exists at right angles to the street fronting the "block".
"Building" means any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls for the housing or enclosure of persons, animals or chattels.
"Building, Accessory" (Accessory building) means a detached subordinate building clearly incidental to and located upon the same lot occupied by the main building and includes both constructed buildings such as sheds or garages and portable structures such as detached carports and Intermodal or ISO containers.
Building, Height of. "Height of building" means the vertical distance from the average finished grade surface to the highest point of the building roof or coping.
"Building inspector" means an officer or designated authority charged with the administration of this code, or duly authorized representative. Building official, enforcement officer, zoning administrator shall be synonymous with building inspector for the purposes of this title.
"Building line" means a line parallel to the front, side, or rear lot line and established at the point where that lot line is closest to any part of the building or structure exclusive of the ordinary projections of skylight, sills, belt courses, cornices, chimneys, flues, and ornamental features which do not project onto a yard more than two and one-half feet, and open or lattice enclosured fire escape, fireproof outside stairway and balconies open upon fire towers which do not project into a yard more than five feet.
Building, Main. "Main building" means the principal building or one of the principal buildings upon a lot, or the building or one of the principal buildings housing a principal use on a lot.
"Conditional use" means a use of land for which a conditional use permit is required, pursuant to this title.
Dwelling, Multiple-Family. "Multiple-family dwelling" means a building arranged or designed to be occupied by three or more families.
Dwelling, Single-Family. "Single-family dwelling" means a building arranged or designed to be occupied by one family, the structure having only one dwelling unit.
Dwelling, Two-Family. "Two-family dwelling" means a single building arranged or designed to be occupied by two families, the structure having at least four feet of common wall in a living area and only two dwelling units. For the purposes of this definition, a carport, garage, porch, deck, breezeway, or other similar non-habitable structural member does not constitute a living area.
"Dwelling unit" means one or more rooms in a dwelling, apartment hotel, or apartment motel, designed for or occupied by one family for living or sleeping purposes and having one but not more than one kitchen or set of fixed cooking facilities, other than hot plates or portable cooking units.
"Family" means one or more persons related by blood, adoption, or marriage, according to the laws of the state of Utah, or a group of not more than four persons occupying a dwelling unit and living as a single housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a boardinghouse, lodginghouse or hotel, as herein defined.
"Home occupation" means a business use conducted on the same lot as a dwelling, which use is clearly incidental and secondary to the use of the property for residential purposes and which does not change the residential character thereof. See Section 5.04.025 of the Manti City Zoning Ordinance for specific requirements for home occupations.
"Household pets" means animals or fowl ordinarily permitted in the house, and kept for company or pleasure such as dogs, cats, and canaries, but not including a sufficient number of dogs to constitute a kennel, as defined in this title.
"Junkyard" means the use of any portion of a lot, or tract of land for the storage, keeping of abandonment of junk, including scrap metal, or other scrap material, or for the dismantling, demolition, or abandonment of automobile or other vehicles, or machinery or parts thereof, provided that this definition shall be deemed not to include such uses which are clearly accessory and incidental to any agricultural use permitted in the zone.
"Kennel" means the keeping of more than three dogs, at least four months old.
"Lot" means a parcel of land occupied or to be occupied by a building or group of buildings, together with such yards, open spaces, lot width and lot area as are required by this title, having frontage upon a public street or upon a right-of-way approved by the board of adjustment.
"Lot area" means the total gross land area of a parcel of land, not including street right-of-ways dedicated to the public.
Lot, Corner. "Corner lot" means a lot abutting on two intersecting or intercepting streets, where the interior angle of intersection or interception does not exceed one hundred thirty-five (135) degrees. Corner lots shall have two front yards and two side yards.
Lot, Frontage. "Frontage lot" means that portion of a lot adjoining a public street measured along the front lot line between intersecting or intercepting streets, or between a street and a right-of-way, waterway, end of a dead-end street, or a political boundary. For lots having a front lot line on more than one street, frontage shall be measured on one street only.
"Lot depth" means the horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines measured in the main direction of the side lot lines.
Lot line, Front. "Front lot line" means, for an interior lot, the lot line adjoining the street; for a corner lot, the lot line adjoining both streets; for a lot with streets on opposite sides, the lot line adjoining either street as elected by the lot owner.
Lot line, Rear. "Rear lot line" means, ordinarily, that line of a lot which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line. In the case of a triangular or gore-shaped lot, a line ten (10) feet in length within the parcel, parallel to and at a maximum distance from the front lot line. In cases where these definitions are not applicable, the planning commission shall designate the rear lot line.
Lot line, Side. "Side lot line" means any lot boundary line not a front or rear lot line. A side lot line separating a lot from another lot or lots is an interior side lot line; a lot line separating a lot from a street is a front lot line.
"Lot width" means the shorter of horizontal distance between the side lot line, measured at the required front yard setback line or rear setback line.
For corner lots the main and accessory buildings shall have a thirty (30) foot setback from both lot lines adjoining the streets. The main building must also have at least a thirty (30) foot setback from one of the remaining two lot lines. The fourth setback must be a minimum of ten (10) feet from the lot line. Unattached accessory buildings may have a five-foot setback on the two lot lines that are not on the streets. There shall be a minimum separation of ten (10) feet between any accessory building and a primary structure same lot. There shall be a minimum separation of five feet between an accessory structure and any other accessory structure on the same or adjoining lot.
"Manufactured housing" means a structure designed and constructed for human habitation, its major component parts being either partially or entirely factory fabricated in single or multiple sections for erection on a site other than its place of fabrication.
"Mobile home" means a manufactured dwelling other than a modular or panelized structure having self-contained plumbing, heating, ventilating and electrical systems, and when installed on site measures at least eight body feet or more in width and thirty-two (32) feet body feet in length, which is with or without a permanent foundation, and for the purposes of this title, was constructed before June 15, 1976.
"Mobile home park" means a space designed and approved by the local jurisdiction for occupancy by mobilehomes, to be under a single ownership or management and meeting all requirements of the zoning ordinance and mobilehome park regulations.
"Mobile home subdivision" means a subdivision designed and intended for residential use where the lots are to be individually owned or leased, and occupied by the mobile homes exclusively.
"Modular home" means a manufactured dwelling structure designed for erection or installation in a site-built permanent, continuous wall foundation at least thirty-six (36) inches in depth, constructed in compliance with either Uniform Building Code as adopted by the local jurisdiction or federal mobile home construction and safety standards, intended to remain indefinitely at the place of erection, and for the purposes of this title, has a body of not less than twenty-four (24) feet in width and forty (40) feet in length.
"Nonconforming building or structure" means a building or structure or portion thereof, lawfully existing at the time the ordinance codified in this title became effective, which does not conform to all the height, area, and yard regulations herein prescribed in the zone in which it is located.
"Nonconforming use" means a use which lawfully occupied a building or land at the time the ordinance codified in this title became effective and which does not conform with the use regulations of the zone in which it is located.
"Story" means the space within a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the ceiling next above.
"Street" means a thoroughfare which has been dedicated or abandoned to the public and accepted by proper public authority, or a thoroughfare, not less than thirty (30) feet wide, which has been made public by right of use which affords the principal means of access to abutting property.
"Structure" means anything constructed or erected, which requires a location on the ground or attached to something having a location on the ground.
"Structural alterations" means any change in supporting members of a building or structure, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
"Subdivision cluster" means a subdivision of land in which the lots have area less than the minimum lot area of the district in which the subdivision is located, but which complies with the cluster subdivision provisions of this title and in which a significant part of the land is privately reserved or dedicated as permanent common open space to provide a low density character for the residential lots in the subdivision.
"Travel trailer or recreational coach" means a vehicular portable structure designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational/ vacation uses, which is not more than eight feet wide and is less than thirty (30) feet long.
"Trailer park" means any area or tract of land used or designed to accommodate two or more travel trailers or camping parties.
Use, Accessory. "Accessory use" means a subordinate use customarily incidental to and located upon the same lot occupied by a main use.
Use, Main. "Main use" means the principal function or use of the land and/or building or structure defined as an allowable use in this title.
"Yard" means a space on the lot, other than a court, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upwards, by buildings, except as otherwise provided herein.
Yard, Front. "Front yard" means a space extending across the full width of the lot, between the front building line and the front lot line. The depth of the front yard is the minimum distance between the front lot line and the front building line.
Yard, Rear. "Rear yard" means a space extending across the full width of the lot, between the rear building line and the rear lot line. The depth of the rear yard is the minimum distance between the rear lot line and the rear building line.
Yard, Side. "Side yard" means a space extending along the full depth of a lot, between the side building line and the side lot line. The width of the side yard shall be the minimum distance between the side lot line and the side building line.